• Table of Contents
• Changes
• Signing Up
• Leagues
• Notes
• Promotions
• Relegations
• Upcoming Dates

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• Draft Change Form

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Changes

Big Changes

Expansion

This year the NarFFL is adding a fourth tier, the Farm League. This tier will consist of an, as-of-yet, undetermined amount of teams. The size of the Farm League will depend on how many people sign up, but it will not expand to fit all those who sign up - sign ups will still be first-come, first-served. It will differ from the Premier, Major and Minor Leagues in that no spots are guaranteed year to year. Every offseason these leagues will be cleared out and re-opened for new owners to take over. This is being done to let more people play in the NarFFL without expanding indefinitely and completely watering it down. More detailed information about the Farm League, including information on how to sign up, promotion and relegation can be found below.

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Deciding the Winner of the Horn

This, by far, was the most difficult decision this offseason. There were many options on the table, but we believe we settled on what is the best possible solution for the NarFFL.

In past years the winner of The Horn has been decided by various NFL Playoff challenges. While this does produce a winner, it has felt disjointed from the previous 16 weeks of fantasy football, not to mention it ended long after most other fantasy football playoffs. Keeping these issues in mind, we have created a much simpler way of deciding on a winner.

Introducing: The Horn Playoffs

We'll use this formula:

(Regular Season Points Avg) + (Week 15 Score) + (Week 16 Score) = Total Horn Playoff Points

The Total Horn Playoff Points (THPP) will determine the winner of The Horn. With some caveats:

You have to win your Premier league to win the horn. There are some special cases where someone who loses in the semifinals of their league's playoffs could have enough points in week 16 to win The Horn. We wanted to avoid that.

Week 14 is the "play-in week", and the points scored in this week do not count towards your total. We didn't want the bye week players to have to field a team when they earned the right to prepare their roster for their week 15 game.

In other words, put together a good team, win your league, win The Horn. Simple right?

All other leagues’ playoffs will follow the standard format.

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Small Tweaks

Rule Changes

2013 Rule

7 extra points when total Offensive + Special Teams Points Allowed is between 2 and 6 (inclusive)

Change

It will now now be between 1 and 6 to account for extra points after a defensive touchdown. Thanks to /u/thefatalace for catching this.

2013 Rule

Enforce Roster Minimums: Yes

Change

We are no longer enforcing roster minimums.

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Signing Up

If you were not a member of the NarFFL in 2013 (or you were relegated out of the Minor Leagues) and you wish to join the NarFFL for 2014, you will have to sign up for the Farm Leagues. Signups will be handled on a first-come, first-served basis. We will be posting the sign up form on August 3rd, 2014 on /r/NarFFL.

The Farm Leagues have a finite amount of spaces available, so make sure to get in there quickly. If the tier has already been filled, you will be placed on a waitlist and will be called on throughout the season to fill in for inactive owners.

Note: If you receive a Farm League invite you will have ~48 hours to claim your team, or we will be forced to fill it with someone from the waitlist.

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Leagues

Premier League

Size

144 teams - 12 leagues with 12 teams in each.

Members

Premier leagues are staying the same as last year (except promotions/relegations).

Draft

Draft dates are agreed upon by the members of each individual 12 man league. Talk to your commish about this.

Playoffs

For each league, playoffs will be the standard format. See The Horn Playoffs section above for information on winning the Horn.

Relegation

Each league will have two relegated teams. To keep owners active that have not made it to the playoffs in their individual leagues, we are giving the winner and runner-up of the consolation playoffs (in each 12 man league) a pass on being relegated. The two relegated owners will be the two lowest ranked teams (by Fleaflicker) out of the remaining four consolation playoff teams. So that means even if a team finishes last in the regular season, they are able to escape relegation by making it to the consolation playoff championship game. The 24 Premier League owners are relegated to the Major League the following year.

Major League

Size

288 teams - 24 leagues with 12 teams in each.

Members

Major leagues are staying the same as last year (except promotions/relegations).

You have to log in to fleaflicker by August 8th to avoid getting replaced.

By logging in, you confirm that you wish to participate in NarFFL 2014.

Draft

There is a default draft slot set for each of the Major leagues - August 31st at 5 PM EDT. This is the weekend before NFL Kickoff. This can be changed if the 12 owners in the league can agree on a new date & time. Just have one of your league members fill out this form with the name of your league and the new date and time.

Promotion

Win your league and you move up. All 24 league winners earn a ticket to the Premier League to fill the 24 slots left by the relegated Premier League members.

Relegation

Each league will have two relegated teams. To keep owners active that have not made it to the playoffs in their individual league, we are giving the winner and runner-up of the consolation playoffs (in each 12 man league) a pass on being relegated. The two relegated owners will be the two lowest ranked teams (by Fleaflicker) out of the remaining four consolation playoff teams. So that means even if a team finishes last in the regular season, they are able to escape relegation by making it to the consolation playoff championship game. The 48 Major League owners are relegated to the Minor League the following year.

Minor League

Size

576 teams - 48 leagues with 12 teams in each.

Members

Minor leagues are staying the same as last year (except promotions/relegations).

You have to log in to fleaflicker by August 8th to avoid getting replaced.

By logging in, you confirm that you wish to participate in NarFFL 2014.

Draft

There is a default draft slot set for each of the Minor leagues - August 31st at 5 PM EDT. This is the weekend before NFL Kickoff. This can be changed if the 12 owners in the league can agree on a new date & time. Just have one of your league members fill out this form with the name of your league and the new date and time.

Promotion

Win your league and you move up. All 48 league winners earn a ticket to the Major League to fill the 48 slots left by the relegated Major League members.

Relegation

Each league will have two relegated teams. To keep owners active that have not made it to the playoffs in their individual league, we are giving the winner and runner-up of the consolation playoffs (in each 12 man league) a pass on being relegated. The two relegated owners will be the two lowest ranked teams (by Fleaflicker) out of the remaining four consolation playoff teams. So that means even if a team finishes last in the regular season, they are able to escape relegation by making it to the consolation playoff championship game. The 96 Minor League owners are relegated out of NarFFL. These owners are welcome to sign up for the Farm League the following year, but that is handled in a first-come, first-served fashion.

Farm League

Size

There are currently a few size options on the table for this season. We will wait until we see the turnout we get when signups open to determine our course of action. This will be announced once we close signups.

Members

Every year the Farm League will be comprised of new people who sign up on a first-come, first-served basis. As opposed to the other tiers, no spot in the Farm League is guaranteed year to year.

Draft

There is a default draft slot set for each of the Farm leagues - August 31st at 5 PM EDT. This is the weekend before NFL Kickoff. This can be changed if the 12 owners in the league can agree on a new date & time. Just have one of your league members fill out this form with the name of your league and the new date and time.

Promotion

Farm League promotion will depend on the size of the Farm League, which again will depend on turnout. There are a few options that range from promoting all teams that make the Farm League playoffs to just promoting the winners of each Farm league. This will also be announced once we close signups. The promoted teams earn a ticket to the Minor League to fill the 96 slots left by the relegated Minor League members.

Relegation

All teams that are not promoted will be removed from the league in the offseason and will have to sign up again the following year.

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Notes

Draft Rankings

Draft rankings are set when the leagues are activated, which is done early in the pre-season. So please, do yourself the favor of resetting your rankings close to your draft. We would especially encourage this if there is even a remote possibility you are going to miss your draft. This can be done on the ‘Draft Ranking’ tab within the ‘Draft’ Page. The selector is on the top right.

A note from Fleaflicker

“Please let your users know this: They must reset their draft rankings to "Redraft" right before the draft if they want to use our most up-to-date rankings or else they'll use whatever rankings we had when you went live and activated the league... Note that their custom draft rankings will be erased by doing this, but it's the best way to get our experts' rankings before the draft if they have none, etc.”

Trade Processing

Last year there were a few issues brought up with trading players that were in Thursday games in regard to when the trade goes through. We reached out to Fleaflicker about this and they have stated that this is by design. However, note that when you make a trade less than 24 hours before game time, you can message the mods to get it pushed through right away.

A note from Fleaflicker

"When the trade is in process, if the player is on the team's roster the next day at 3 AM they will receive the points. So I'm assuming that player was on the team's roster Friday at 3 AM, and the team had points for them. In this case, it's a function of the system we won't change since it's the correct behavior. You can read about it more here."

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Promotions

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Relegations

Note: Due to some owners replacing inactive owners midseason, there may be duplicates in these lists. Don't worry, we've got it all worked out.

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Upcoming Dates

Jul. 25, 2014

Announcement

Aug. 3, 2014

Farm League Invites Open

Aug. 3, 2014

Preseason Kickoff (N.Y. Giants vs. Buffalo)

Aug. 5, 2014

Farm League Invite Acceptance Deadline

Aug. 8, 2014

Deadline for Returning Owners (sign in before this date!)

Aug. 31, 2014

NarFFL Default Draft Day

Sep. 4, 2014

NFL Kickoff (Green Bay at Seattle)

Dec. 21/22, 2014

NarFFL Champ is crowned

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